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Merging identified peopel in photo gallery

Is there any way to merge the identified people in photo gallery? The facial recognition software has identified a number of people in 3 or more groups due to hats, sunglasses, etc and i would like to merge them back int …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 27, 2017

Windows Movie Maker Green and Broken Screen

I was trying to edit my video using windows movie maker, and after I saved my project, the video went green and broken. I have tried splitting the video and saving them separately but nothing helped. My video was of 444m …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 26, 2017

Where can I find a download for Windows Movie Maker

Does anyone know where I can find a download for Windows movie maker? That isn't GUARANTEED to mess up my laptop? There are NO other alternatives and it's the ONLY program I can use to do my work. YouTube's editor is GON …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 26, 2017

Windows Movie Maker

Does anyone know where I can find a download for Windows movie maker? That isn't GUARANTEED to mess up my laptop? There are NO other alternatives and it's the ONLY program I can use to do my work. YouTube's editor is GON …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 26, 2017

How do I edit a video

I know this is tough for Windows to do, It's only been a part of Apple computers for about 20 years now. How do I edit movies on my computer? Windows Movie Maker doesn't exist anymore and the bs remix story stuff (that d …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 25, 2017

How do I edit a video

I know this is tough for Windows to do, It's only been a part of Apple computers for about 20 years now. How do I edit movies on my computer? Windows Movie Maker doesn't exist anymore and the bs remix story stuff (that d …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 25, 2017

Want to make a video in windows movie maker

For the above subject, I tried to open the .vpj file in windows media player but it doesn't support to open the file. So I need a supported codec of the player. My system is working with windows 8.1. I need windows movie …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 25, 2017

Windows Photo Gallery

While I have never had any trouble in the past, I find now that I cannot open Photo Gallery I keep getting the following pop-up. Can you tell me what I am supposed to close or open to make it work?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 25, 2017

How to install Movie Maker?

Split from this thread. Hi, I have tried many times this link on Windows 10 (as well as the ones that were posted in a different thread on the Microsoft forum) but unfortunately it fails :( . It says "unknown error has o …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 21, 2017

No audio on Windows live movie maker

Hi all, I was trying to edit a video using the Windows live movie maker, but the audio is missing. I tried everything I could to fix the issue, nothing has panned out. The audio mix button under the project tab is greyed …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 20, 2017

How to copy from a AVCHD camcorder?

Using Win7 I'm trying to download/copy AVCHD videos from a Canon camcorder. When I connect the camcorder I see nothing in My Computer even though the camcorder tells me its connected via USB. Canon said I need some sort …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 19, 2017

can’t open movie maker

Because the windows essentials download doesn't work anymore, I copied the file onto my dropbox from a system that did still have movie maker on it. The file itself downloads fine but if i try to open it I get an error m …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 18, 2017

Movie Maker

I have created a large movie and am trying to save it. The Error 0x887A0005 keeps coming up saying Please check that file preparation is enabled in Options or remove the files. File preparation is checked in Options. The …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 17, 2017

Error 0x80004003

"Do you want to remove 'javaw 2017-12-16 15-16-52-720.avi' from the project? The file might be corrupted or in a format that Movie Maker doesn't recognize. This movie can't be saved or published until javaw 2017-12-16 15 …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 17, 2017

Movie maker

Hello i nedd windows moviwe maker i just talked to alexander f and he said to talk to you so i need the download link please and thank you i have a pay pal and i am a genorus tipper ok thanks for the linke sinserclt-alex

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 17, 2017

Movie Maker and being dyslexic

Hi, i have dyslexica and have used movie maker for years because unlike so many others video editing which is white on black or something similer, which is impossible to understand because once again i have a dysability. …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 16, 2017

Movie Maker

Is Movie Maker being discontinued or replaced. I enjoy the product and would like to continue using it.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 16, 2017